'Tainted' MySejahtera can be used for NCD screening – minister

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has raised Malaysia's plan to expand the MySejahtera app for purposes other than its original Covid-19 screening and vaccine verification purposes during the recent 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

News portal Code Blue reported that Khairy, when speaking at a strategic roundtable on behavioural science, talked about how the app's Covid-19 functions are now seen as "tainted" but yet could be repurposed to tackle the non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis in Malaysia...